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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

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Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

• An email address listed inside this email has been used in a known fraud before.
• The following phrases in this message should put you on alert:
  • "liberia" (a location commonly mentioned in 419 scams)
• This email message is a 419 scam. Please see our 419 FAQ for more details on such scams.
  
• This email lists free webmail addresses. Use of such addresses is typical for scams. Lotteries, banks and any but the smallest of companies do not normally use such addresses. Criminals use them to anonymously send and receive email at Internet cafes.
  • tonymmrk@aim.com (email address has been used in a known fraud before)

Fraud email example:

From: PROFESSOR TONY MARK <tmarktony@aim.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:33:38 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: URGENT


Professor Tony Mark
Manchester G37 7FT,
United Kingdom.
Tel: 004470-2409-1329
Fax:0044-87-1256-3776
Private E-mail: tonymmrk@aim.com

We are Diplomats that use our immunity and status to safekeep special and valuable
packages and baggage in trust for reputable clients that are honest and trustworthy.

We work in collaboration with top firms and Governments of various countries as we
have earned a name as a service whose hallmarks in reliability and confidentiality are
revered.

International missions, Fellow Diplomats and Embassies of the world have used our
services to satisfaction.

A benefactor has mandated me to get someone that can assist her and her family in
retrieving her package containing some amount of money from a Diplomatic Corp in
Europe.

The benefactor and her children have been confined only to their country home and all
their calls and movements are monitored, as a result,its absoultely impossible for them
to do anything as regards retrieving the money.

Their only means of communication is via internet and you are being contacted because
your assistance is needed in claiming the funds on their behalf.

In order to clear any misgivings or doubts that you may have, it is imperative that I give
you an insight of who the benefactor is.

I do not know how conversant you are with events and the fragile political situation in
Liberia but it has made consistent headlines on CNN, BBC and several news bulletins
around the world.

The benefactor is Mrs.Suzana Isaac Nuhan Vaye, wife of the late Deputy Minister of Works
in Liberia (Isaac Nuhan Vaye) who was murdered by Taylor during the regime of
President Charles Taylor on the false accusation and trumped up charges of trying to
overthrow Charles Taylor.

The late Isaac Nuhan Vaye raised a substantial amount of money accrued from Diamond
Sales over a period of six years and these funds were carefully moved out and deposited
with Diplomats in Europe for safekeeping before his assasination by Charles Taylor.

The amount accrued from the Diamond sales over this period of six years is USD75M
(Seventy Five Million U.S.Dollars) and these funds are fully free of any liens, or
encumbrances and are clean, clear and has no criminal origin.

The funds have nothing to do with any form of illegality and all documentations needed to
prove the source of the funds were submitted when the funds were being deposited and
these documents would prove the source of the funds and authenticate the fact that the
funds are clean and has no links whatsoever with either drugs or terrorism.

For your assistance in this transaction,the benefactor and her Children have agreed to
give you 25% of the total amount of money which is equivalent to US$18.75 Million
(Eighteen Million,Seven Hundred and Fifty Thousand United States Dollars) for your role
in this transaction which involves retrieving the funds on their behalf from the Diplomats
in Europe and all the information needed to claim the funds would be sent to you as soon
as you indicate your interest in assisting them as well as providing the following
information to facilitate the smooth conclusion of the transaction.

Requested Information are as follows;

1) Full Names and Address either Company or Residential Address

2) Private Telephone,Mobile and Fax Numbers where you can be reached at all time as
these numbers are important because they would be forwarded to the Diplomats in order
to notify them that you would be claiming the funds on the benefactor's behalf.

You can verify the authenticity of this letter on one of the worlds' top Newspapers below:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-07-15-liberia_x.htm

I await your response.

Professor Tony Mark

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